St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-03-03
TOWN MEETING.

TOWN MEETING.
A Large Attendance.-Few Changes.-A
Cut-Down i'm Salaries.
Town meeting was held Tuesday
There was large attendance and 8
spirited meeting. HI. C. Bates, Esq.
was elected moderator and the follow
ing town officers were elected:
Clerk and Treasurer, Elijah d. Blod-
gett.
Selectmen, William Higgins, Daniel
Carpenter, Charles Cobb.
Overseer of the poor, Moses +. Bar
rett.
Constable and Collector, Avery d
Pike.
Listers, Elisha May, E. l.. Hovey
William b. Johnson.
superintendent of schools, Rev. E
L. Sandford.
Auditors, Harry Blodgett, Dennis E.
May, Warren G.. Lewis.
Trustee of public money, Elijah d
Blodgett.
Fence viewers, the board of select
-nfen.
Town grand jurors, B. F. Rollins, H
G.. Bates, Dennis E. May.
Inspector of leather, Henry F. Girls
void.
Surveyors of wood and inspectors OF
lumber, Sias Randall, Daniel Carpen-
ter, w. F. Kelly.
Agent to prosecute and defend town
suits, j. G. Hovey.
Court grand jurors, T. C. Fletcher,
d. M. Bacon, w. C. Lewis, Albert
Worcester.
Petit jurors, Emerson Hall, E. P.
Potter, Peter Clement, w. B. Johnson,
A. o. Baker, w. p. Chaffee, HI. M.
Aver, E. F. Brown, NJ j. Caldbeck, E
N. Randall, Hollis Pierce.
The town voted 800 for the OBJ.
servance of Memorial day to be ex-
pended by Chamberlin post.
Voted to pass over the article on set
ting the Simon Peck farm from district
IA.
Under article it was resolved, that
Union school district, comprising dis
tricts Nos. l, 2 and shall receive the
same amount of that portion of the
public money or school fund which is
distributed equally between all the
school districts as the several districts
forming Union district would have re-
ceived.
Account of the Meeting.
When the hour for opening the meet
ing came round the town hall was
about full. Somehow, everybody
seemed to feel that there was going tC
be sharp contest all along the line
and that some new names were going
to be introduced into the lists of town
officers. Town clerk E. d. BlOdgett
called the meeting to order and when
nominations for moderator were called
for the names of III. G. Bates and w
p. Smith were called, the former name
was put and Mr.. Bates was elected by
reclamation.
The next business in hand was the
election of town clerk. The name of
E. d. Blodgett, the present clerk, was
first called and then that OF George P
Moore. Mr.. MOOre's name had beer
mentioned by his friends before the
meeting and many felt that there
would be a pretty close contest. Mr.
BlOdgett was reelected by a large ma
jority, receiving 800 out of the Az
votes cast, Mr.. Moore receiving the re.
naming rs.
Before proceeding to the election o
selectmen Elisha May presented thu
following resolution:
Resolved, That the selectmen, list
ers, auditors and Overseer ..Of poor o
this town, shall hereafter be paid only
at the rate of 81 per day, for the time
actually and necessarily spent il
performing the duties of their Offices
respectively, and the actual and neces
sary cash disbursements therein /; an(
that no claim for compensation shall
be allowed for any greater part of ;
day than actually employed, nor unit
the claimant shall file with the tow
auditors his account in writing, veri-
fed by oath, showing each item o.
time, and expense charged, the bust
ness done, the length of time spent
therein, the date thereof, and the ex
pense incurred which account shall
be audited by the town auditors, ant
their allowance paid by orders on thu
treasury to be drawn by the select
men; the treasurer shall be paid $5t
per year, and all officers except til,
collector of taxes shall be paid the fee
allowed by law. No charge for use o
team by any town officer shall b'
allowed.
Mr.. May stated that similar vot'
was passed by the town in 1888 bu
that it had been ignored. Takin.
three years previous to 1882 the sala
ries of town officials averaged $3.50
year. They had now advanced t.
$l967, ten per cent of the grand list
Rutland, with a much larger grand lis
paid its selectmen $500; st. Alban
1925, st. Johnsbnry $5I2. The Rut
land listers received 1904 st. Alban
listers $50; ST. JOhnsbury $749. Bot
the resolution and the speech were re
ceived with applause.
DR.. G. B. Billiard thought that tn
officers had served the town faithfull
and earned their money and did no
like to see the old board smirched jus
as they were going out of office.
II. C.. Ide called attention to tn
fact that the resolution allows nothin
for team hire on the part of the listers
He thought that in getting to and fror
the various parts of the town team
| Wnnld he necessarE and that the ex